Power to your wallet

Voltaware’s top tips for saving money through better energy management

Posted by Voltaware 20 Dec 2019

With the cost of living on the rise, many people in the UK are struggling to make ends meet. Happily, with a few simple lifestyle tweaks – and the help of Voltaware’s advanced energy intelligence – you can reduce your outgoings substantially...

Switch your appliances off when you’re not using them

We’re all guilty of leaving the bathroom light on when we go downstairs, or putting the TV on standby instead of switching it off when we go to bed. But while these things may seem insignificant at the time, they can really impact on your monthly electric bill. Voltaware will help you to change your habits. Via its user-friendly app, it will deliver a clear and comprehensive breakdown of your home’s energy consumption, enabling you to identify exactly how much electricity each appliance is using, and how much it is costing you. You will also receive recommendations on how you can lower your consumption (and reduce your carbon footprint), as well as motivational monthly reports to keep your energy-saving campaign on track.

Pre-empt when your appliances might break down

When you’re saving for a holiday or trying to put some money away for your children’s education, the last thing you want is to have to splash out on a new refrigerator or washing machine. Fortunately, with Voltaware, such eventualities are easily avoidable. By monitoring the energy consumption of your home’s appliances 24/7, Voltaware can determine if something is not performing at its best. In the event that something is amiss, it will immediately send a notification to your smartphone, giving you time to fix the problem – of get it fixed by a professional – before the appliance completely breaks down.

Keep an eye on your home while you’re away

Going on holiday leaves your home vulnerable to fire and burglary, both of which can have huge financial implications. Many people install state-of-the-art alarm systems to protect against such eventualities, but these can be expensive in themselves. That’s where Voltaware proves invaluable: by monitoring your home’s appliances round the clock, it can detect if you have left something on, causing a potential fire hazard; or if unusual activity is occurring in your house, which may point to criminal activity. It will then immediately notify your smartphone, wherever you happen to be, so that you can nip the hazard in the bud before it’s too late.

Have a better relationship with your home

Considering how much time the average person spends at home, we should all be experts on our living space. And yet, many of us remain ignorant to what’s going on around us: how much energy our home consumes, how much it is costing us – not to mention the subsequent impact on the environment. Voltaware will bridge that gap between you and your home: through its user-friendly smartphone app, it will provide you with a clear disaggregation of your monthly bills, meaning that you won’t get any unwanted surprises when that envelope drops on your doormat. The app will also offer monthly energy-saving tips and P2P comparisons, helping you to keep your monthly spend to the absolute minimum.